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281 Space Tug (Sequel to Space Platform) by Murray Leinster

Joe had helped launch the first Space Platform--that initial rung in man's ladder to the stars. But the enemies who had ruthlessly tried to destroy the space station before it left Earth were still at work. They were plotting to stop Joe's mission!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
Tags: Science Fiction, Novel-Classic
Downloads: 1103 Votes: 42 | Score: 8.31
Size: 303KB | 55,449 words | Posted:

282 Ultima Thule by Mack Reynolds

Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete his assignment and find the elusive Tommy Paine?
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Downloads: 833 Votes: 40 | Score: 8.31
Size: 147KB | 26,798 words | Posted:

283 Wailing Wall by Roger D. Aycock

An enormous weapon is forcing people to keep their troubles to themselves--it's dynamite!
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Downloads: 167 Votes: 7 | Score: 8.31
Size: 29KB | 5,212 words | Posted:

284 Angel's Egg by Edgar Pangborn

When adopting a pet, choose the species that is most intelligent, obedient, loyal, fun to play with, yet a shrewd, fearless protector. For the best in pets--choose a human being!
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 748 Votes: 30 | Score: 8.31
Size: 74KB | 13,942 words | Posted:

285 Gold in the Sky by Alan Edward Nourse

The rock in space was not quite a sphere, being far too tiny a bit of cosmic debris to have sufficient gravity to round off its ragged corners. One side was rough -- like a ragged mountain top that was broken off at the peak and hurled into space by an all-powerful hand. Slowly the Scout Ship edged closer, braking with forward jets. Was this it, at last -- the missing asteroid?
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 2364 Votes: 135 | Score: 8.31
Size: 206KB | 39,014 words | Posted:

286 The Eyes Have It by James McKimmey

Daylight sometimes hides secrets that darkness will reveal--the Martian's glowing eyes, for instance. But darkness has other dangers....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 195 Votes: 8 | Score: 8.30
Size: 16KB | 2,928 words | Posted:

287 Omnilingual by H. Beam Piper

Earth scientists investigating the remains of a Martian city.
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 1266 Votes: 71 | Score: 8.30
Size: 91KB | 16,483 words | Posted:

288 Day of the Moron by H. Beam Piper

It's natural to trust the unproven word of the fellow who's "on my side"--but the emotional moron is on no one's side, not even his own. Once, such an emotional moron could, at worst, hurt a few. But with the mighty, leashed forces Man employs now....
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Age Rating: Older than 7 | Genre: Science Fiction
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Downloads: 631 Votes: 39 | Score: 8.30
Size: 63KB | 11,318 words | Posted:

289 The Aliens by Murray Leinster

The human race was expanding through the galaxy... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet... war is inevitable. Or is it...?
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Downloads: 1351 Votes: 84 | Score: 8.30
Size: 78KB | 13,871 words | Posted:

290 The Airlords of Han by Philip francis Nowlan

Recovering from a gas that caused him to sleep for five hundred years, Anthony "Buck" Rogers helped an enslaved America strike its first blow for freedom against the alien Han. Now, he and beloved, warrior-woman Wilma Deering, must lead a desperate a battle to the finish against a superior foe -- using futuristic weapons such as disintegrators, jumping belts, inertron, paralysis rays, and atomic torpedoes.
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Downloads: 1168 Votes: 38 | Score: 8.30
Size: 169KB | 29,934 words | Posted:
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